History Manga / HallucinationsFromTheWomb

* CloningBlues: Two of the chapters focus on this.

* NoNameGiven: The two cops.

* IllGirl: A decidedly {{squick}}y example in the second story. The girl in question is [[spoiler: given an STD that will kill her in three years by the very man who saved her from dying homeless in the streets.]]

''Hallucinations From The Womb'' is a single-volume collection of short stories by Creator/MohiroKitoh, better known as the author of ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' and ''Manga/{{Narutaru}}''. The stories all take place in Shell City, a futuristic yet decaying city that constantly builds itself upwards, leaving the ruined lower portions buried underground. This decay is mirrored in the minds of its citizens, and the various stories illustrate the degree to which they have become corrupted. Each of the stories is told in the form of a police procedural, with two police officers being the only characters who appear in all of the stories. It contains some very interesting insights on the human condition but, as with ''Narutaru'', it is borderline NotSafeForWork.

* PeopleJars: In the first story, a man clones his wife multiple times (once for every year she's lived) and preserves the clones in tanks of liquid. He's arrested once the newest clone catches on to this.

* NoNudityTaboo: Inside the video game developer's life-size reconstruction of his game.

* EsotericHappyEnding: A lot of the endings to the stories come off like this. None of them really have a DownerEnding, but the resolutions for most of them seem incomplete. This is deliberate, since the main theme of the stories is the decay of society.

* RecycledCharacterDesigns: One of the kids in the fourth story looks a lot like Waku from Manga/{{Bokurano}}.

* RecycledCharachterDesign: One of the kids in the fourth story looks a lot like Waku from Manga/{{Bokurano}}.

* RecycledCharacterDesign: One of the kids in the fourth story looks a lot like Waku from Manga/{{Bokurano}}.

* PeopleJars: In the first story, a man clones his wife and multiple times (once for every year she's lived) and preserves the clones in tanks of liquid. He's arrested once the newest clone catches on to this.
* RapeAsDrama: In the second story, a man [[spoiler: has sex with a girl and gives her an STD that will kill her in three years]]

* CyberPunk
* DeadpanSnarker: The male police officer

* PeopleJars: In the first story, a man clones his wife and multiple times (once for every year she's lived) and preserves the clones in tanks of liquid. He's arrested one the newest clone catches on to this.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman

* Dystopia: Shell City itself.
* ItAmusedMe: The excuse the mad video game developer gave for abducting a bunch of teenage girls to put in a life-size version of his game
* LovePotion: One of the stories involves a boy trying to find one
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Class C Corpses, a phenomenon that occurs only in Shell City
* RapeAsDrama: In the second story, a man [[spoiler: has sex with a girl and gives her an STD that will kill her in three years]]

''Hallucinations From The Womb'' contains the following tropes:

''Hallucinations From The Womb'' is a single-volume collection of short stories by Creator/MohiroKitoh, better known as the author of ''Manga/Bokurano'' and ''Manga/Narutaru''. The stories all take place in Shell City, a futuristic yet decaying city that constantly builds itself upwards, leaving the ruined lower portions buried underground. This decay is mirrored in the minds of its citizens, and the various stories illustrate the degree to which they have become corrupted. Each of the stories is told in the form of a police procedural, with two police officers being the only characters who appear in all of the stories. It contains some very interesting insights on the human condition but, as with ''Narutaru'', it is borderline NotSafeForWork.

''HallucinationsFromTheWomb'' contains the following tropes:

CloningBlues: Two of the chapters focus on this.

ItAmusedMe: The excuse the mad video game developer gave for abducting a bunch of teenage girls to put in a life-size version of his game

LovePotion: One of the stories involves a boy trying to find one

OurZombiesAreDifferent: Class C Corpses, a phenomenon that occurs only in Shell City

RapeAsDrama: In the second story, a man [[spoiler: has sex with a girl and gives her an STD that will kill her in three years]]

Dystopia: Shell City seems to be one. People are kept on a registry that contains everything about them, many books are banned, and crime runs rampant.